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Key Changes & Improvements

🔄 Extend Tasks Expansion
Mix and match the orchestration of external services - Databricks Jobs, Fabric Notebooks, Fabric Pipelines, Logic Apps, ADF, and Function Apps - directly from within Empower.

🔧 Data Migration Enhancements We've expanded Data Migration capabilities to support promotion of Workflows, Fivetran Tasks, Extend Tasks, and Publish Tasks between environments.

🚨 Error Message Banner Real-time validation and error feedback now available in editable grid views within the Modeling module.

🔔 Notifications Nudge Gentle reminders to enable notification emails for users who haven’t turned them on yet.

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Extend Tasks Expansion

Orchestrate external services directly from Empower. With this expansion, you can now execute Databricks Jobs, Databricks Notebooks, Fabric Notebooks, Fabric Pipelines, Logic Apps, ADF, and Function Apps all directly within your Empower Workflows.

Learn More about Extend Tasks Here.

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Data Migration Asset Expansion

This update extends migration capabilities to include Workflows, Acquisition Tasks for Fivetran Sources, Extend Tasks, and Publish Tasks. Seamless promote all of your asset types across environments with ease and without fear of manual error.

Learn More about Data Migration capabilities here.

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Error Message Banner

Get instant feedback while editing. The new error banner provides real-time validation and actionable error messages within editable grid views in the Model module. Prevent mistakes early and improve data accuracy!

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Notifications Nudge

Have you enabled email notifications yet? Don't worry, we will remind any user who has not yet enabled email notifications, helping teams are informed in a timely manner when Workflows or Tasks fail. By ensuring notifications are active, you can maintain visibility and avoid delays in your processes.

Learn more about notifications here.

Itemized Changelog

Enhancements & Features

• Extend Tasks Expansion: Added support for Azure Data Factory Pipelines, Databricks Workflows, Fabric Notebooks, Fabric Pipelines, Logic Apps, and Azure Functions.
• Extend Tasks UI Updates: Removed Advanced Options from all Extend types except Databricks Notebook; updated form fields for ADF and Logic Apps; added secret management and flow model field updates; improved metric card routing.
• Config Migration Enhancements: Added Workflow Migration to UI; enabled migration for Fivetran Tasks, Extend Tasks, and Publish Tasks; updated download endpoint; introduced Advanced Options toggle for Workflow/Fivetran migration; UI refinements.
• Workflow Enhancements: Redesigned Workflow Configuration page; added task descriptions to Workflow returns; displayed descriptions across Acquire, Publish, and Workflow modules; minor UI updates.
• Task Enhancements: Updated Run Preview Modal to Blade layout; added Start and End Date fields to Schedule Card.
• Modeling Enhancements: Added Overview Page Cards; introduced Error Message Banner for real-time validation in editable grid views; updated Entity Sync button location; expanded Global Search to include Entity and Entity Column pages.
• Notifications Improvements: Introduced Notifications Nudge to remind users to enable email notifications; quality-of-life updates for notification settings.
• Dashboard Updates: Improved Failure Banner display; corrected banner logic for Object Acquisition Failures.
• Administration Updates: Updated Administration routes for better navigation.
• Spark & Ingestion Optimizations: Added asynchronous telemetry logging; avoided repeated toDF() calls on DeltaTable ingestion path; implemented conditional silver view recreation to skip unchanged views.
• Connector Enhancements: Refactored ADLS connector to ingest data from files; optimized ADF pipelines; enabled Dynamics CE Publish as a Publish Task instead of Extend Task.

Bugfixes

• Fixed metadata extraction status display for connections.
• Resolved issue where notification service couldn’t start if FDS was unavailable.
• Fixed Extend Task failures for Fabric Notebook when run through Workflow.
• Addressed logout issue when environment was changed.
• Corrected dashboard banner showing no unaddressed errors despite existing failures.
• Fixed extraction failures for IBM DB2 and Azure MariaDB connectors.
• Resolved ingestion errors caused by special characters in ADF connectors.
• Fixed connectivity and routing issues across modules.
• Corrected UI inconsistencies and minor layout bugs.